284.82 billion yuan!
Beijing's single-month foreign trade scale hits a record high
According to Beijing Customs statistics, in the first 11 months of 2021, the import and export of the Beijing area (including the central government units in Beijing) was 2.77 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.3% compared with the same period last year (the same below), compared with 2019 An increase of 6.1% over the same period.
Among them, imports were 2.21 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.2%; exports were 559.02 billion yuan, an increase of 30.5%.
The person in charge of Beijing Customs stated that since the beginning of this year, the foreign trade in Beijing has shown a steady and positive development trend, and in particular, imports have maintained a rapid growth trend.
In November, Beijing imported 237.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.6% and a month-on-month increase of 22.1%. Driven by strong import growth, Beijing’s imports and exports in November amounted to 284.82 billion yuan, an increase of 41.5%, and the scale of foreign trade hit a record high.
During the same period, the export volume of Beijing area was 47.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.7% and a month-on-month decrease of 8.4%. The export scale in a single month was less than 50 billion yuan for the first time since April this year.
Imports and exports to major trading partners maintained growth.
In the first 11 months, Beijing's imports and exports to the top five trading partners of the European Union (excluding the United Kingdom), ASEAN, the United States, Australia, and Saudi Arabia maintained growth, increasing by 10.5%, 32.8%, 58.8%, 21.1%, and 40.7%, respectively. Imports and exports to RCEP countries amounted to 611.57 billion yuan, an increase of 23.1%, accounting for 22.1%.
It is worth noting that the increase in raw material prices in November pushed up the import scale of energy commodities, while automobile imports continued to decline.
In November, the import unit prices of crude oil, natural gas, coal, and lignite in Beijing increased by 86.1%, 112.9%, and 99.8% respectively. Driven by this, the import value of the above three commodities increased by 69.8%, 155.5%, and 581.8%, which became a push up. The most important commodity imported by Beijing in November.
In the same period, the Beijing area imported 58,000 automobiles, a decrease of 27.2%, and the import value was 22.47 billion yuan, a decrease of 5.6%. Since August this year, the scale of automobile imports fell for four consecutive months.
It is understood that in recent years, Beijing has incorporated comprehensive protection zone work into the city's "two districts" construction special research and promotion, which has become an important part of the implementation of Beijing's "five sons linkage".
In the first 11 months, enterprises in Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Yizhuang Bonded Logistics Center used bonded logistics to import and export 75.27 billion yuan and 5.97 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 37.3% and 199.1%, both of which were higher than the growth of regional foreign trade in the same period.
Among them, enterprises in Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone imported 55.86 billion yuan of medicinal materials and drugs through bonded logistics, an increase of 38.3%, accounting for 77.4% of the value of bonded logistics imports in Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone during the same period, and 1.96 billion yuan of cultural products exported through bonded logistics , An increase of 15.4 times, accounting for 64.1% of the area’s export value through bonded logistics in the same period.
Yizhuang Bonded Logistics Center enterprises imported 3.29 billion yuan of semiconductor manufacturing equipment through bonded logistics, an increase of 476.2%, and accounted for 55.4% of the center's imports through bonded logistics during the same period.